Community-based psychosocial rehabilitation for schizophrenia service users in the north west province of South Africa: A
formative study(
)1
edition published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
ABSTRACT: Psychosocial support is recognized as important for recovery for service users with schizophrenia, in addition to
provision of antipsychotic medication. This study aimed to develop a community-based psychosocial rehabilitation programme
for service users with schizophrenia to be facilitated by auxiliary social workers, and to investigate acceptability and feasibility
of the programme. A task-sharing approach was adopted in which auxiliary social workers were trained to facilitate psychosocial
rehabilitation groups. In-depth individual qualitative interviews were conducted with six group members at baseline, midpoint,
and endpoint (18 interviews in total). NVivo10 was used to store data and conduct qualitative framework analysis. Participants
reported benefits of the programme, including improvements in group members' self-esteem, social support, illness knowledge,
self-care, and contribution to their households. A key barrier to acceptability was the lack of provision of income generating
opportunities. Implementation challenges include difficulties in tracing and engaging service users and families, lack of
an appropriate venue, and issues with supply of antipsychotic medication. This study has provided evidence for the benefits
and acceptability of this contextually adapted programme. Key barriers to implementation can be addressed through the provision
of the necessary resources for auxiliary social worker input in the community

Cigarette smoking among Southern Nigerian youth and what geopolitical zones got to do with it(
)1
edition published
in
2016
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
ABSTRACT: Cigarette smoking is a known public health challenge given the number of tobacco-related diseases. Research is needed
to constantly evaluate smoking prevalence in particular settings like Nigeria with projections of increasing smoking uptake.
This study examined the smoking behaviour of the young people in Southern Nigeria in relation to their demographic and socio-economic
attributes like gender, age, employment status and educational attainment. Intentions to quit and quit attempts of current
smokers were also explored. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 550 respondents aged 18–24 years in three categories:
students, skilled and unskilled workers using a modified version of the global youth tobacco survey questionnaire. Chi-square
tests were used to explore associations between relevant variables. Participants were recruited using a multi-stage non-probability
sampling technique. The software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19 was used in the analysis of
the data. Prevalence of active smokers was 29.7% ( n = 160) while 40% ( n = 224) of the respondents had experimented with
smoking. Nearly half of the smokers (43.8%, n = 70) smoke between two and five cigarettes per day. Smokers were more likely
to be males, unskilled workers and reside in or come from the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria. About a third of current
smokers (34.4%, n = 55) indicated an intention to quit while 39.4% ( n = 63) attempted to quit in the year prior to the
study. There is an urgent need to implement the National Tobacco Control Act 2015 in Nigeria. This will reduce youth access
and stop the targeted marketing of young people by Tobacco multinationals in Nigeria

From policy to praxis : rethinking comprehensive integrated primary mental health care by Inge Petersen(
)1
edition published
in
2014
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
In this dissertation I have provided an academic interrogation of the gap between policy principles for comprehensive integrated
primary mental health care in South Africa, and the implementation theoreof. I argue, theoreically, that the current add-on
approach, which emphasizes care for patients with serious mental illness, will not achieve the vision for comprehensive integrated
primary mental health care in South Africa. I suggest that this trajectory is a product of the reformist approach to the implementation
of primary health care, and suggest that what is needed is a shift towards a comprehensive discourse of care at the primary
level. My research aimed at developing an understanding of how such a shift could be achieved

From policy to praxis : rethinking comprehensive integrated primary mental health care by Inge Petersen(
)1
edition published
in
2001
in
English
and held by
1 WorldCat member
library
worldwide
In this dissertation I have provided an academic interrogation of the gap between policy principles for comprehensive integrated
primary mental health care in South Africa, and the implementation theoreof. I argue, theoreically, that the current add-on
approach, which emphasizes care for patients with serious mental illness, will not achieve the vision for comprehensive integrated
primary mental health care in South Africa. I suggest that this trajectory is a product of the reformist approach to the implementation
of primary health care, and suggest that what is needed is a shift towards a comprehensive discourse of care at the primary
level. My research aimed at developing an understanding of how such a shift could be achieved